LSU will be playing Ohio State in the BCS Championship Game Jan. 7 in the Superdome.

Sugar Bowl committee members were getting word Sunday afternoon that all polls and computer results were in, and that the Buckeyes and Tigers had finished 1-2 in the final BCS standings.

Also, Georgia will play undefeated Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl in Jan. 1 as New Orleans plays host to two of college football's premier events in a week's span.

The pairings actually became apparent earlier in the day.

In the USA Today coaches poll which was released shortly before noon, LSU was a solid No. 2 behind Ohio State, 87 points ahead of No. 3 Oklahoma.

Ohio State was a runaway No. 1 with 46 first-place votes, although LSU, which received seven first-place votes, is closer to the Buckeyes (51 points behind) than the Sooners are to the Tigers.

LSU, with its 21-14 victory against Tennessee in the SEC Championship Game, jumped idle Georgia and Kansas plus Virginia Tech to reach second place in the poll, Oklahoma, a 38-17 winner against No. 1 Missouri, moved up from eighth in last week's poll.

The coaches' poll counts for 1/3 of the BCS standings formula.

The Harris Interactive Poll, which will be released at 7 p.m. along with the official BCS announcement, counts for 1/3 as well, but it would haven taken a major reversal from the coaches poll for the Tigers to have been beaten out, and that didn't happen.

Last week, LSU was fifth in the Harris to Oklahoma's seventh.

The computer rankings also count for 1/3 of the standings, but thus far LSU is ahead of Oklahoma in the two which have been released, the Sagarin and Colley. The other four will not be released until the same time as the BCS standings.

The other BCS bowls will Southern California vs. Illinois in the Rose Bowl, West Virginia vs. Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl and Oklahoma vs. Kansas in the Fiesta Bowl.